Government must refrain from sponsoring prison programs that promote religious conversion or coercion, Americans United for Separation of Church and State told the U.S. Civil Rights Commission last month.

InnerChange, Luchenitser said in his Feb. 8 testimony, was pervaded with evangelical Christianity. As a result, he said, prisoners of other faiths had to listen to their religions being criticized and were urged to convert.

Luchenitser cited testimony during the trial from Roman Catholic inmates who testified about their experiences. One man said an InnerChange volunteer insisted a pope would be the Antichrist. Another said he was told to stop reading the Catholic version of the Bible. Other inmates were barred from saying Catholic prayers.

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